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👋 Hey, I created Station. I love writing code, building things and learning languages. Mi parolas Esperanton.
🌍 Manchester, UK
🗣 Followers 190 · Following 387 · Logs 184 · Docked 2 years ago
Station has reached 500 users! Thanks @powerh00th00t for bringing this awesome little community on the fringes of the Internet to this new milestone. Thanks everyone who participates here for keeping this place alive, friendly, and full of interesting stuff every day! 🍻
💬 4 Replies · 17 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Hello from the Atlantic ocean! I'm on a ship headed to Lazarote and I'm somehow picking up a 4G signal, so I've tethered so I can use Lagrange. First Atlantic ocean post on Gemini? 😆
💬 5 Replies · 18 Thumbs · 1 year ago
So I've been thinking. Wanderlust, while used too often, is still a cool German word that captures the essence of wanting to be somewhere else – the desire (lust) to be wandering (wander). But eventually, such an unfulfilled desire doesn't feel so positive, so I've always been on a first-name basis with Fernweh – far pain, or the pain of not being somewhere far away (in contrast to homesickness). Reflecting on the last month hanging out in the Canary islands, I'm grateful that I've had no cause to use either of these words. In fact I now wish to coin a new pair: Hierlust (the desire to be right here) and Anderswoweh (the pain of thinking about being anywhere else).
💬 6 Replies · 10 Thumbs · 1 year ago
I've been pretty quiet on here since before Xmas. I've been traveling again. I really should sort out a mobile client. Hope everyone's 2022 has started well! 💪
💬 2 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
¡Feliz día de Reyes! I didn't get anything. Probably a Brexit thing.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Station just reached 1500 (1501 now) posts! I'm loving the active, niche, friendly community we have here. Every time I visit there's something that catches my attention, and that's great to see considering the tiny corner of the internet we occupy. Here's to the next 1500!
💬 3 Replies · 14 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon! Today it's Esperanto day! If anyone's curious why I rate the language, and how I got into it: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/
💬 2 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
It's a grey, rainy day here in Manchester, UK. I'm staying in drinking Club-Mate and writing code all day, and I couldn't be happier.
💬 2 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
JavaScript is 26 years old today. Crazy. Feels more like NaN years to me.
💬 9 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 1 year ago
This is neat! Random 4k wallpaper generator... no two images are exactly the same: https://tanck.nl/wallpaper
💬 2 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 1 year ago
I built a little turn-based game for some training I'm delivering. Goal: write a bot that finds and destroys its opponent. Here, bot 2 guesses the movement pattern of bot 1 and lays a mine in its path. This one should be fun to run! 🙌 Quick demo: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463473663576088579/pu/pl/638JNY7n9HKh23_H.m3u8?tag=12&container=fmp4&descending=true
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Drinking Club-Mate and coding at 01:45. Today-me is screwing tomorrow-me so hard right now.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 year ago
I have way more interesting conversations with people who have the ability to say "I don't know".
💬 3 Replies · 10 Thumbs · 1 year ago
This week I'm delivering training to a bunch of folks getting into JavaScript from different languages/environments. Teaching is really rewarding... I really like doing it.
💬 5 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Not getting your StackOverflow questions answered? Got questions sitting around collecting nothing but internet dust? Simply make a second account and post a blatantly incorrect answer. Watch as hundreds of thousands of programmers from around the world descend on your question with their knowledge.
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TIL: the oldest lightbulb (Centennial Light Bulb) has been almost continuously on since 1901. It's now 120 years old. It has been in Fire Station 6, Livermore, California since 1976 where it still burns.
💬 1 Reply · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
💬 8 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Welcome @velartrill. You're Station's 300 member!
💬 3 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Kirk is about to go back into space. T-10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Question: What's your favourite TED talk and why? Mine is "The art of misdirection" by Apollo Robbins: https://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection Why? Because it's awesome (you can only watch it once).
💬 5 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all have a productive week. Going to be a busy one over here, but I'd prefer it no other way :)
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
The Mandelbrot set is so interesting. If you've not heard of it before, check out this awesome, beautiful visualisation of it. Bonus: watch it for a minute or so and then look at an object in your room. The effects are so fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk
💬 7 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Station just received its 1000th post! Nice work everyone. It's awesome to see this micro community on Station growing and continuing to be full of interesting people and discussions 🙌
💬 5 Replies · 13 Thumbs · 2 years ago
What's everyone up to this week? I'm finishing off a little client work before putting some time into my own project work, which I've neglected far too much lately. Making time to work on my own things is really important – it's an essential part of keeping programming fun for me.
💬 10 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
I saw this on the "other web" and had to share here: A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says "You're in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?" The horse replies "I don't think I am," and then disappears from existence. See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of "I think, therefore I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke would be putting Descartes before the horse.
💬 5 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 2 years ago
It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Curb has a special place in my heart (and the next one is coming in October!), but no sitcom will ever beat Seinfeld for me.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Two years today since I made a Polish robot speak Esperanto, and it still does: https://parol.martinrue.com If you want to hear it, here's an example taken right out of the English-Hungarian phrasebook: My hovercraft is full of eels: https://parol.martinrue.com/?teksto=Mia kusenveturilo estas plena je angiloj
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Unpopular? opinion: get rid of the feature to minimize windows. I mostly only ever do it by mistake and haven't needed it in forever. If they ever give me the launch codes to macOS, it's *gone*, I tell you!